[Solved] Blazor DatePicker/DateTimePicker does not have FocusDate (UI for Ajax)

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Matt Smith asked on 01 Jul 2026, 07:51 PM

Hi, I am trying to port our app to Blazor from UI for Ajax. One of the glaring omissions is the FocusDate which we use heavily.

Use case: team is planning the travel a staff member to the Tour de France sometime in May. However, the race is in July. The Blazor UI will use the selected date however, there is no selected date yet. In the UI for Ajax version, we use the starting date of the race as the focus date which places the travel in the right neighborhood and most likely doesn't require the user to change the month making the process more productive.

The worst case scenario is when the team is planning a training camp and they have to change the view every single time for 200 people. That's not very nice.

I am wrapping the Telerik control within a component to be able to have better Placeholder feedback for the user.

Matt.

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answered on 02 Jul 2026, 05:50 AM

Hi Matt,

Indeed, this is a useful enhancement and we have a feature request about a focused / initial DatePicker date. It is currently in our backlog for the near future and I also voted on your behalf.

In the meantime, if the discussed behavior is strongly required and a show-stopper, you can achieve it with a custom component that combines the three building blocks of a DatePicker:

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commented on 02 Jul 2026, 06:14 PM

Hi Dimo,

For the moment, it is a show stopper in porting process. Given the number of lines of code that need to be ported, I am working through my library code porting my own server controls and my composite server controls which include the DatePicker, DateTimePicker and TimePicker.

In reality, it will be quite a while before I get to the point of rolling out an incremental migration given number of lines of code in the entire app (1M +)

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